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[Max @MaxiPritchard]

@tobiastornros @GergelyOrosz It will be disabled on organisation accounts, yes!

[📦🛠👷🏻‍♂️Sean Larkin @TheLarkInn]

Using both cc and cpcli daily, hourly, etc. I have to say the moat is barely there anymore.

The rate at which copilot-cli has caught up is incredible. Try it out if you haven't already. The model availabilities alone was worth using both side by side.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Today we’re releasing GitHub Spark — a new tool in Copilot that turns your ideas into full-stack apps, entirely in natural language.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

NO FEES on web transactions. Game over for the Apple Tax.

Apple’s 15-30% junk fees are now just as dead here in the United States of America as they are in Europe under the Digital Markets Act. Unlawful here, unlawful there.

4 years 4 months 17 days.

[eu/acc @euacchq]

European founders are so so so ready to push Europe to the next level of efficiency

It’s simple. Open up. Free them.

API-first administrations, open source.

Let 🇪🇺 talent automate everything: fintechs, SAAS, AI chat.. let them transform Europe, set up UIs, set free European businesses and people’s time from bureaucracy overload

Yes, there are self-imposed european massive tariffs that tomorrow @vonderleyen , @EU_Commission could free by saying: you know better how to fix this, do it.

It’s time for a high performance Europe

A c c e l e r a t e

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

Imho it's not about regulation (socialism, or mindset).
It's simply a lot about fragmentation.

It's hard to build big companies quickly – esp consumer facing – if you have fragmented markets with national languages, media and legal system.

Basically, it's just more efficient to scale to/in the US market. Hence a ton of those companies, were started with/by Europeans.

Same is true for fundraising – where each national ecosystem pretty much acts only isolated (eg less than 18% pan-european investing in early stage)

Sucks, but many of those parts are fixable.
Fix the system, create more successes, change the mindset.

It's doable especially now:

1) Consumer is less the "hot topic"
- instead, it's about deeptech where we got the research
- and customers are happy to buy whereever

2) Our countries realized they can no longer rest on their established industries
- we live now in a global market and need more dynamism

And there is no way around. We are since a few years in a global economic crisis and the only way out for everyone - including the US - is forward.

[Balaji @balajis]

How likely are you to be married by 30?

Boomers: ~90%
Zoomers: ~30%

This is civilizational.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

I'm German.

Europe is dying out.

Birthrates are rapidly collapsing. Government incentives aren't working.

By 2100, Europe will have lost 117 million people.

Here's why Europe's population is imploding (and what it means for the world) 🧵:

[Marc-André Fongern @Fongern_FX]

VW, profits slump by 64%.
Audi, profits slump by 91%.
BMW, profits slump by 84%.
Mercedes-Benz, profits slump by 54%.

Germany's core industry is staring into the abyss.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Proposed design by @AriWagen. Looks pretty slick!

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

China has installed 770 cumulative (nameplate) GW of solar, with 160 GW added in just the first three quarters of this year. This is probably the most important story of our lifetimes. https://t.co/ZFHAYEspVM

[EU Social 🇪🇺 @EU_Social]

EU #youth #unemployment in August 2024:

🇪🇸24.7%
🇸🇪23.8%
🇷🇴23.2%
🇪🇪22.7%
🇸🇰20.9%
🇱🇹20.5%
🇱🇺20.4%
🇬🇷19.4%
🇵🇹19.0%
🇮🇹18.3%
🇫🇮17.9%
🇫🇷17.2%
🇧🇪16.8%
🇭🇷16.7%
🇱🇻16.5%
🇨🇾15.6%
🇭🇺15.2%
🇩🇰15.0%
🇪🇺14.3%
🇦🇹13.1%
🇧🇬11.0%
🇮🇪10.7%
🇨🇿10.6%
🇵🇱10.2%
🇸🇮10.2%
🇲🇹8.9%
🇳🇱8.9%
🇩🇪6.8%

→ @EU_Eurostat

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Mario Draghi's new report on EU competitiveness doesn't mince words.

"Across different metrics, a wide gap in GDP has opened up between the EU and the US, driven mainly by a more pronounced slowdown in productivity growth in Europe. Europe’s households have paid the price in foregone living standards. On a per capita basis, real disposable income has grown almost twice as much in the US as in the EU since 2000."

"First – and most importantly – Europe must profoundly refocus its collective efforts on closing the innovation gap with the US and China, especially in advanced technologies. Europe is stuck in a static industrial structure with few new companies rising up to disrupt existing industries or develop new growth engines. In fact, there is no EU company with a market capitalisation over EUR 100 billion that has been set up from scratch in the last fifty years, while all six US companies with a valuation above EUR 1 trillion have been created in this period. This lack of dynamism is self-fulfilling."

"There are not enough academic institutions achieving top levels of excellence and the pipeline from innovation into commercialisation is weak. [...] However, while the EU boasts a strong university system on average, not enough universities and research institutions are at the top. Using volume of publications in top academic science journals as an indicative metric, the EU has only three research institutions ranked among the top 50 globally, whereas the US has 21 and China 15."

"Regulatory barriers to scaling up are particularly onerous in the tech sector, especially for young companies. Regulatory barriers constrain growth in several ways. First, complex and costly procedures across fragmented national systems discourage inventors from filing Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), hindering young companies from leveraging the Single Market. Second, the EU’s regulatory stance towards tech companies hampers innovation: the EU now has around 100 tech-focused laws and over 270 regulators active in digital networks across all Member States. Many EU laws take a precautionary approach, dictating specific business practices ex ante to avert potential risks ex post. For example, the AI Act imposes additional regulatory requirements on general purpose AI models that exceed a pre-defined threshold of computational power – a threshold which some state-of-the-art models already exceed. Third, digital companies are deterred from doing business across the EU via subsidiaries, as they face heterogeneous requirements, a proliferation of regulatory agencies and “gold plating” of EU legislation by national authorities. Fourth, limitations on data storing and processing create high compliance costs and hinder the creation of large, integrated data sets for training AI models. This fragmentation puts EU companies at a disadvantage relative to the US, which relies on the private sector to build vast data sets, and China, which can leverage its central institutions for data aggregation. This problem is compounded by EU competition enforcement possibly inhibiting intra-industry cooperation. Finally, multiple different national rules in public procurement generate high ongoing costs for cloud providers. The net effect of this burden of regulation is that only larger companies – which are often non-EU based – have the financial capacity and incentive to bear the costs of complying. Young innovative tech companies may choose not to operate in the EU at all."

More: https://t.co/x1d1ApvG2Z.

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Ist das, was er mit Zeitenwende meinte?

[David Orenes @david_lrl]

A falta de un salto, su mejor marca era 6.16. En el último ha hecho el salto de su vida (6.32) para superar en 0,03 a su rival y conquistar su primera medalla paralímpica.

Genio Joan Munar 😎🥉🇪🇸👏

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

There are categories of startups that show a future I absolutely dislike.

Clearly, their messaging targets CEO and CFOs who care about minimising cost spent on customer support.

In this future, talking to talk to a human over the phone will become a premium few companies offer.

[Max @MaxiPritchard]

@pobremillenial Las autopistas están igual de colapsadas que en años anteriores. Mi teoría es más bien que la gente sigue viniendo, pero se quedan en los hoteles con todo incluído u Airbnbs con lo suyo: https://t.co/XcwQoXp0Bc
Afecta al comercio local sobretodo.